USOC Looks for Stability : Olympics: Executive committee meets to calm organization after resignation of Helmick.

Amid controversy that has placed the operations of the U.S. Olympic Committee under a microscope, the 22-member executive committee is scheduled to meet at USOC headquarters today in an effort to stabilize the organization in the wake of President Robert Helmick’s resignation.

The executive committee is expected to form a nominating committee that would identify candidates to serve as interim president during the remainder of Helmick’s term, which was due to expire in November of 1992.

A vote probably will be held at the USOC’s Nov. 2 board of directors meeting to choose a successor to Helmick, who resigned under pressure last Wednesday because of attention focused on whether some of his private business deals as a sports lawyer and consultant represented a conflict of interest.

Among candidates most often mentioned are vice presidents Michael Lenard of Los Angeles and William Tutt of Colorado Springs, along with executive committee members Anita DeFrantz of Los Angeles and William Simon of Morristown, N.J. Simon served as USOC president between 1981-85.

The executive committee also plans to discuss whether special counsel Arnold Burns, a former U.S. deputy attorney general, will continue to investigate Helmick, or whether Burns will focus instead on charges made by U.S. Skiing that the USOC’s executive director, Harvey Schiller, was involved in ethical and procedural violations.

Schiller and the USOC’s deputy secretary general in charge of development, John Krimsky Jr., met with Burns last Friday in New York.