THE SIDELINES : E. Germany Wants Games in 2004
The East German city of Leipzig will bid for the right to stage the 2004 Summer Olympics, East Germany’s Communist leader Erich Honecker told a visiting West German politician today.
West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper said Honecker told him about Leipzig’s plans to bid for the Games during a three-hour meeting in East Berlin. Momper said he had raised the subject of West and East Berlin making a joint bid to share the 2004 Games. But Honecker replied that East Germany’s candidate would be Leipzig, Momper told reporters.
When Ronald Reagan visited West Berlin as President in June, 1987, he proposed that the 2004 Olympics be shared by West and East Berlin. West German and West Berlin officials have supported the call, but East Germany said in 1988 that it had no means to finance the Olympics.
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