Two-thirds of Alaska’s voters, deciding on whether...

Two-thirds of Alaska’s voters, deciding on whether Anchorage should be included as a possible site for the 1994 Winter Olympics, supported staging a privately funded $279-million Games while agreeing to hold their city government responsible for paying any Olympics debts.

The outcome surprised Anchorage’s previously pessimistic Olympic boosters, who had said they needed a mandate to impress the International Olympic Committee for Anchorage to have a chance against Sofia, Bulgaria; Ostersund, Sweden, and Lillehammer, Norway.

The IOC will pick one of those cities as host for the games at a meeting Sept. 15 in Seoul.