Sentence:  On this issue , the President received a detailed report from his U. N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson , who had just returned from Paris , and Mr. Kennedy <WSD>asked</WSD> Stevenson to search for a face-saving way - for both Paris and Tunis - out of the imbroglio . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make a request or demand for something to somebody