Decorator's death laid to strangling

NEW YORK (A) Interior de.signer Michael Greer, 60, an acknowledged homosexual, was strangled after being hit on the side of the head, according to an autopsy performed yesterday.

Greer, who helped redecorated the White House for three presidents, was found Monday in his plush Fifth Avenue apartment. His feet were tied together.

The medical examiner said death was by strangulation but he could not yet determine what was used in the strangulation. "It does not appear at this time that anything was wrapped around his neck," he said.