The State - News from April 16, 1986

Despite “the seemingly endless parade of abuses and tragedies that stain our daily lives, I am confident that the era of progress, prosperity, tolerance and opportunity that we Californians have forged in our land can likewise be forged in other lands,” Gov. George Deukmejian told about 1,700 people attending the governor’s annual prayer breakfast in Sacramento. Deukmejian said that “totalitarianism is on the run. Democracy is on the rise. And the desperate acts of the tyrants and terrorists hurt us to the core, but we can take comfort in the fact that they will not win.” He did not identify the “tyrants and terrorists.”