TV & VIDEO - Feb. 17, 1988
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Game-show host and former host of the Miss USA Pageant Bob Barker says he may join animal rights activists in picketing the March 1 pageant as a protest against a contest prize of a full-length fur coat. Members of Sangre de Cristo Animal Protection Inc. of Las Cruces, N.M., who plan to picket the Albuquerque pageant, have invited Barker to join them. “I’m totally supportive of Sangre de Cristo in this protest,” Barker said Monday. Barker had been master of ceremonies for the pageant for 21 years before he resigned last month because the pageant decided to award the fur coat.