Indeed, the October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende, using CIA 'sub-machine guns and ammo', was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.
Sheriff Judd made a direct plea in a nationally televised news conference to William Joe Mitchell, above, to leave the girl somewhere, and believes it worked.
Mr. Trump eventually offered a reprieve, after a direct plea by Mr. Xi, and ZTE agreed to pay a $1 billion fine, replace its leadership and allow inspections of its operations.
De Blasio's emotive eulogy ended with a direct plea: "As we start a new year," he said, "a year we're entering with hearts that are doubly heavy, let us rededicate ourselves to those great New York traditions of mutual understanding and living in harmony.
The album closed with a cover of a minor soul classic, Timmy Thomas's "Why Can't We Live Together?," a direct plea for racial harmony that hinted at a political sensibility, easier to hear in later songs about immigrant workers and slaves.
The title track is a vow of fidelity, while "Hand Me Down Your Love" is a direct plea to do just that, underlined by piano chords and a drumbeat harking back to Motown.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a direct plea on Wednesday at the start of a two-day gathering of 40 environment ministers near this capital, a precursor to the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Bali in December.
From the lawn of the White House, the president made a direct plea not just to Congress but to a deeply divided American nation and to the wider world.
Those discussions included a direct plea from Tony Blair to George Bush, as well as repeated assertions by a British delegation, which included the attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, that a proposed military tribunal which Mr Begg and Mr Abbasi were listed to face did not meet international standards of justice.
"Cherry Bomb," one of the album's most emotionally direct songs, begins with a plea — "Life can be so fair, let it go on and on" — and Daniel quickly drops into his normal range to clarify: "We lost it long ago, you and me".
