A Break in the Case: Tip Ties Killing to 'Cotton Club' Deal By Steve Wick, \o7 Steve Wick is a bureau chief with Newsday and spent three years researching "Bad Company." A member of Newsday's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, he lives on Long Island, N.Y., with his wife and three children. \f7
Nixon Knew Best The GOP Gets Out Its Cloth Coat By Kevin Phillips, \o7 Kevin Phillips, publisher of the American Political Report, is the author of "The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath" (Random House)\f7
PLATFORM : No Free Ride \o7 JIM SIMS is president of Commuter Computer, a nonprofit agency that helps commuters arrange car pools. He talks about the proposed L.A. levy on parking fees and any spillover benefit of encouraging car-pooling\f7
How to Select Proper Lampshade \o7 This column is prepared by members of the American Society of Interior Designers and International Society of Interior Designers\f7
Extra Loan Payments Bring More Profit By Don G. Campbell, \f7 and \o7 Campbell, a retired Times staff writer, now is a Phoenix-based free-lance writer.
Tips for New Condo Association Leaders By Benny L. Kass, \o7 Kass is a Washington lawyer and newspaper columnist specializing in real estate and tax matters\f7
Seven Obstacles for a First-Time Home Buyer By Morey Stettner, \f7 and \o7 Stettner, a first-time home buyer, has been named to the board of directors of his homeowners association.
Ban on Children Under 18 Is Illegal By Jan Hickenbottom, \o7 Hickenbottom is past president of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), a national nonprofit research and educational organization\f7
ANALYSIS : Defensive Cup Play Offensive to Purists By Henry Kissinger and Anthony Day, \o7 Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state, is the chairman of the board of the World Cup '94 Organizing Committee. Day is senior correspondent for The Times\f7
Better Not Make Snap Judgments of This Fish By John Henderson, \o7 Henderson is an award-winning sportswriter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and a frequent adventure traveler\f7 .