He could do more by heeding a request from Jordan's King Abdullah to promise the Palestinians compensation for what they have eventually to give up in land or the rights of refugees.
Several years ago, for example, Japanese dockworkers, who have almost total control over shipping operations in Japan, heeded a request from American longshoremen not to unload fruit shipped from a nonunion port in Florida.
But Ann Jawin, director of the Queens Women's Center, has refused to heed a New York Fire Department request that the center move from a building it has occupied since 1997.
In a statement issued Friday, the F.B.I. said only that it would heed any request from the office of the United States attorney in Portland to investigate.
Rather than heed the request, he appears to have somehow convinced the board to issue a statement supporting without qualification his continued position as chairman.
But their livelihood preoccupations did not allow them to heed that request.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 —The Peace Corps is asking older Americans who might have heard President John F. Kennedy's call to service more than 40 years ago to heed his request.
While all appeared to heed the request to keep guns out of the commission's sprawling compound on the outskirts of Kabul, each did arrive with hundreds of supporters.
Japan also expressed strong concern, saying Algeria had failed not only to advise of the operation ahead of time, but to heed its request to halt the operation because it was endangering the hostages.
In her first speech, peppered by applause and standing ovations, she called on lawmakers to make the lower house "the house of good politics," and to heed "the request for change that all Italians are asking of us, especially our children".
