The World - News from June 4, 1986
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that his government is creating an Environment Ministry, a move viewed as a political reaction to the Soviet nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl. Heading the new ministry will be the mayor of Frankfurt, Walter Wallmann, one of the more popular politicians in Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union. The party has fallen in public opinion polls since the Chernobyl accident April 26, partly because of the government’s confused reaction to radiation levels in West Germany.
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