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...president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Robert Helmick had a job whose power and prestige were rivaled only by the nobility of its ideals: patriotism, sportsmanship and international understanding. For the past six years, the Des Moines lawyer and former water-polo star controlled a $75 million annual budget and headed a federation of 41 organizations that train and finance America's Olympic athletes...
...last week Helmick's reign ended abruptly amid reports that he had accepted payments from organizations seeking Olympic contracts. His sudden resignation from the unsalaried post shook the USOC and sapped public confidence during a crucial fund-raising period, only five months before the 1992 Winter Games begin in France...
According to newspaper reports, Helmick received at least $275,000 in consulting fees over several years from clients such as Turner Broadcasting, the U.S. Golf Federation and Saatchi & Saatchi advertising. Helmick admitted receiving the payments but insisted that he had done nothing wrong. "There was no conflict of interest," he said...
...longtime sports lawyer, Helmick claimed to have formed many of his business associations before he came to the USOC and maintained that he "accepted business only for valid business reasons." He said he was leaving the USOC to ensure that it would not be "paralyzed" by controversy. But William E. Simon, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary who was USOC president from 1981 to 1985, had a very different view. Helmick, he said, had committed an "impropriety" that made his resignation "necessary...
...line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director of the two hot lines, is a sense of "disconnectedness...