People, Feb. 11, 1974

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Uganda's unpredictable General Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada may be a Moslem, but last week he was sounding off on equal rights for women. Suiting action to his words, he appointed as Uganda's Ambassador to Egypt Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, once a top fashion model and Uganda's first woman barrister. The princess has been a firm Amin supporter since Big Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were deposed as rulers of Toro in 1966) said that she would be known simply as Elizabeth Bagaya in Cairo. Sounding like a lady the boss can count on, she added: "I am excited and grateful that General Amin, a champion of the Arab cause, has chosen me.

Trouble is stirring in Nirvana. A.C. Bhakivedanta, Swami of the Hare Krishna movement, at a news conference in Hong Kong last week denounced a rival guru: self-styled divinity Maharaj Ji, 16, now counseling his disciples in California. The ascetic swami, whose followers constitute a kind of saffron-robed Hindu version of the Salvation Army, began by saying, "You've got to decide whether he is God, or a dog." Noting the young leader's luxurious life style, the swami declared rather ominously, "He is cheating people, but he will be cheated in a bigger way. When God meets cheats, he can be a better cheat than they."

Blond, blue-eyed and unabashed Christopher Tanner, 4, of Pasadena, Calif., looked over his fellow model and decided that a correction was in order. "I'm going to pull your nose off!" he cried, tugging at the proboscis of California Governor Ronald Reagan. Chris, who has several birth defects, was posing with Reagan in the Governor's Sacramento office for an Easter Seal fund-raising poster. "Hey," grinned Reagan, "I'm going to take your nose off too," and he returned a friendly tweak. Then he offered his constituent a perk: the jar of jelly beans he keeps on his desk.

Emitting a couple of uninhibited shrieks, Mrs. Mark Phillips clung to the toboggan her husband was expertly maneuvering down the fast hill. Having arrived safely at the bottom, Princess Anne regained her composure as she and Mark mingled with the guests at a winter-games party thrown in their honor by Canadian Governor General Jules Leger at Ottawa's Governmenl House. Obviously enjoying their second official visit abroad together, the Phillipses even made a little history. Where Anne dropped the puck at a hockey game in Hull, Quebec, it marked the first royal visit to the French Canadian province since the 1964 separatis demonstrations against Queen Elizabeth. She scored a success with Hull Mayor Jean-Marie Seguin, who remarked, "She speaks better French than most French Canadians."