Torch Passes To New Sloc Chief

Frank Joklik began his new job as chief executive of the 2002 Winter Olympics in the same methodical way he oversaw $2 billion worth of projects at the mining giant Kennecott Corp.

“You’ve got people, you’ve got schedules, you’ve got general objectives, you’ve got to figure tasks toward those general objectives,” says Joklik, who was picked this past week to replace a disgraced Tom Welch.

The 69-year-old Austrian-born geologist was the chairman of Salt Lake’s bid and now its organizing committee.

A small leftist group claimed responsibility Monday for a firebomb attack that damaged the entrance to the Greek Olympic Committee headquarters in Athens, Greece.

The fiery blast late Sunday, although small and causing no injuries, spread anti-Olympic violence to another city and was “strongly condemned” by the director general of the International Olympic Committee.

In Stockholm, Sweden, like Athens a candidate city, a series of bombings and threats have been waged in opposition to staging the Games.