1.   The administration placated protesters by agreeing to consider their demands.

2.   The announcement Wednesday that Egypt would reduce diplomatic contacts and sever other links with Israel, but would not cut diplomatic relations, seemed unlikely to placate the protesters.

3.   The Clinton administration is making a concerted effort to placate protesters.

4.   But that did little to placate the protesters who turned their anger on the U.N.

5.   Justice Minister Pierre Max Antoine said their threats were a declaration of war, but he offered nothing to placate the protesters.

6.   Mugabe, in an apparently curtailed speech, failed to placate the protesters.

7.   The European Central Bank warned governments not to sacrifice tax and spending plans and undermine economic growth to placate protesters outraged by skyrocketing fuel prices.