I know it won't be today,'' he said in a telephone interview conducted Tuesday morning Beijing time from the compound surrounded by a cordon of Chinese police. There's so much rubble in the driveway you couldn't get an automobile through it,'' he said. We've had close to 60,000 to 80,000 people come through here. The numbers of demonstrators hurling Molotov cocktails along with their insults have begun to decrease, Sasser said. What you see is substantially more police on the street.
Police are out by the hundreds.
And people are running out of energy somewhat,'' he said. He said a Marine officer hit in the eye by flying glass sustained the only injury during the four days of demonstrations. What frightened Sasser most, he said, was the possibility that marauding demonstrators would harm his wife, Mary, and son, Gray, who were locked inside the ambassador's residence about a quarter-mile away. They are now at a Beijing hotel. Sasser said he believes the Chinese government sanctioned the demonstrations, but he thinks officials were surprised by the ferocity and numbers of protesters.