The World - News from June 26, 1987
Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, the retiring NATO commander, passed the U.S. European Command to his successor, Gen. John R. Galvin, with a warning against the Kremlin’s “seductive rhetoric” on arms control. “We have yet to see any reduction in Soviet military capabilities or any modifications in the expansionist Soviet policy,” Rogers said in a ceremony in Stuttgart, West Germany. Galvin automatically becomes supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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