A Common Enemy Hovers Over Small Circle of Friends MILTON W. KOHUT, Milton Kohut, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is a missionary for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, whose cancer was diagnosed in November, 1989
Do Residents Have to Pay for Termite Control? JAN HICKENBOTTOM, Hickenbottom is past president of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), a national nonprofit research and educational organization
Gardening : A Plant You Know May Be Calling for Help JOEL RAPP, Rapp is a Los Angeles free-lance writer and the gardening editor of Redbook magazine. As "Mr. Mother Earth," he has written several plant-care books.
Who Gives a Hoot for Home Buyers? HUGH HEWITT, Hugh Hewitt, an attorney with the Irvine law firm Pettis, Tester, Kruse & Krinsky, follows endangered species issues for the Building Industry Assn .
PLATFORM : Still the Old System GENE HALE, chairman of the Black Business Assn. of Los Angeles, commented on the prospects of black business expansion in Southern California. He told The Times:
Sculpt This Into Your Pipe and Smoke It LAWRENCE WESCHLER, Lawrence Weschler is a staff writer at the New Yorker whose most recent book is "A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturers" (Pantheon, 1990)
Shifting Trends Point to Dip in U.S. Interest Rates A. GARY SHILLING, A. GARY SHILLING is president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., economic consultants and asset managers. His firm publishes Insight, a monthly newsletter covering the business outlook and investment strategy