People, Dec. 8, 1975

Tippling in the ranks of his army is giving Uganda President Idi Amin Dada a headache. "Soldiers who drink their heads off" and "fatten beyond efficiency" should be tossed out of the service, Big Daddy declared at a parade. The 300-lb. field marshal then adjourned to the officers' mess, where he quaffed his favorite pick-me-up — a cold Coke.

"I believe I'm old enough to go steady," said New York Governor Hugh Carey, 56, "but I have no intention of doing anything like that." The Governor is a widower with twelve children, and his occasional dinner date is Anne Ford Uzielli, 32, younger daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II. Anne has been living quietly in Manhattan with her two children since the break-up of her marriage to a Wall Street stockbroker two years ago. She and Carey were introduced in October by Phyllis Wagner, wife of former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Says the Governor: "She's interested in government, and I'm teaching her."

Previous winners have included Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler, as well as the entire Mars candy company. This year the Public Doublespeak Award of the Illinois-based National Council of Teachers of English went to Yasser Arafat, 46, head of the militant Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat's prizewinning formulation: "We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood."

"I'm going to be lovable, magnanimous, charming, witty and irresistible — not the aesthetic creep we all know and can't stand." So says Actor Nicol Williamson, talking about Sherlock Holmes, whom he plays in the forthcoming movie version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. In the film, based on Nicholas Meyer's novel, the tweedy sleuth travels to Vienna and collaborates with — who else? — Sigmund Freud, portrayed by Alan Arkin. It's almost too good to be true, says Arkin. "I didn't know that after seven years in analysis, you get to play Freud."

She has dated the nephew of a millionaire nobleman, gone dancing with a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, and partied with pop celebrities like Andy Warhol. After some nervous transatlantic phone calls from Mother, Caroline Kennedy, an art student at Sotheby's, may be adopting a lower profile. For her 18th birthday last week, young Caroline canceled plans for a big London bash and joined a few friends at a Berkeley Square club. The birthday feast: a hamburger and a glass of wine.

Just back from their second honeymoon in Africa, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton decided to look in on a couple of the kids. Their destination: the twelve-acre farm in Wales belonging to Michael Wilding Jr., 23, Liz's son from her second marriage. Michael and his girl friend whipped up a vegetarian banquet for the prodigal pair, complete with a local soup in honor of Welshman Burton. Mother Liz pronounced the meal "one of the best," which was also her judgment of a rock group, Solar Ben, in which the versatile Michael plays trumpet, flute and guitar.