TASK DEFINITION: You need to read the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. The question should be answerable from the passage. Most importantly, only those questions are allowed whose answers cannot be determined from a single sentence. Do not generate questions that require only a single sentence to answer. Instead, try to combine two sentences and create a question from that combination. Do not create open-ended questions, i.e., the answers to them cannot be found precisely from the information provided in the passage.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: PARIS, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said.
Sent 2: Caterpillar's French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.
Sent 3: It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations.
Sent 4: Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.
Sent 5: The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.
Sent 6: The workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union.
Sent 7: They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Benoit told CNN.
Sent 8: One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building.
Sent 9: The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because he has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN.
Sent 10: Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, Patrick said.
Sent 11: The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, he said.
Sent 12: About 500 employees were also outside the building protesting.

SOLUTION: Provide the full name of one of the hostages?

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: On December 4, as news came in about the discoveries in Jordan, National Security Council (NSC) Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke wrote Berger, "If George's [Tenet's] story about a planned series of UBL attacks at the Millennium is true, we will need to make some decisions NOW."Sent 2: He told us he held several conversations with President Clinton during the crisis.
Sent 3: He suggested threatening reprisals against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the event of any attacks on U.S. interests, anywhere, by Bin Ladin.
Sent 4: He further proposed to Berger that a strike be made during the last week of 1999 against al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan-a proposal not adopted.
Sent 5: Warned by the CIA that the disrupted Jordanian plot was probably part of a larger series of attacks intended for the millennium, some possibly involving chemical weapons, the Principals Committee met on the night of December 8 and decided to task Clarke's Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) to develop plans to deter and disrupt al Qaeda plots.
Sent 6: Michael Sheehan, the State Department member of the CSG, communicated warnings to the Taliban that they would be held responsible for future al Qaeda attacks."Sent 7: Mike was not diplomatic," Clarke reported to Berger.
Sent 8: With virtually no evidence of a Taliban response, a new approach was made to Pakistan.
Sent 9: 13 General Anthony Zinni, the commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), was designated as the President's special envoy and sent to ask General Musharraf to "take whatever action you deem necessary to resolve the Bin Laden problem at the earliest possible time."Sent 10: But Zinni came back emptyhanded.
Sent 11: As Ambassador William Milam reported from Islamabad, Musharraf was "unwilling to take the political heat at home."Sent 12: The CIA worked hard with foreign security services to detain or at least keep an eye on suspected Bin Ladin associates.
Sent 13: Tenet spoke to 20 of his foreign counterparts.
Sent 14: Disruption and arrest operations were mounted against terrorists in eight countries.
Sent 15: In mid-December, President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody.
Sent 16: The authority was to capture, not kill, though lethal force might be used if necessary.16Tenet would later send a message to all CIA personnel overseas, saying, "The threat could not be more real.

SOLUTION: In which way was Mike not diplomatic?

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Japanese Occupation (1941-1945): The Pacific War actually began 70 minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor, on Malaysia's east coast, near Kota Bharu.
Sent 2: It was there, at 15 minutes past midnight local time on 8 December 1941 (when it was still 7 December on the other side of the International Dateline in Hawaii) that Japanese troops landed from assault vessels on Sabak Beach.
Sent 3: Japan coveted Malay's natural resources, namely rubber, tin, and oil, and the port of Singapore through which they passed.
Sent 4: A "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," as Japan called it, would be the ultimate aim of this invasion.
Sent 5: And as in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Japan appealed to Malay nationalism to throw off the Western imperialist yoke in a movement of Asian solidarityan "Asia for the Asians" spearheaded by Japan's Imperial Army.
Sent 6: Not expecting a land attack, Commonwealth troops on the peninsula were ill-prepared.
Sent 7: Indian infantry inflicted heavy losses from their bunkers on the beaches but finally succumbed to the massive onslaught.
Sent 8: The landings were launched from bases ceded to the Japanese by Marshal Petain's French colonial officials in Indochina and backed up by new high-performance fighter planes.
Sent 9: More Japanese infantry poured in from Thailand to capture key airports in Kedah and Kelantan.
Sent 10: To counter the Kota Bharu landings, the British overseas fleet's proudest battleships, the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, sailed north.
Sent 11: But without air cover, they were spotted off the coast of Kuantan and sunk by Japanese bombers.
Sent 12: The Singapore naval base was left empty.
Sent 13: Kuala Lumpur fell on 11 January 1942, and five weeks later the island of Singapore was captured.
Sent 14: Northern Borneo was quickly overrun, but the oil fields of Miri and Brunei were pre-emptively sabotaged by the British and Dutch.
Sent 15: If Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Malaya was notoriously brutal, the attitude towards Asian civilians was more ambivalent.
Sent 16: At first, the Japanese curtailed the privileges of the Malay rulers and forced them to pay homage to the emperor of Japan.
Sent 17: But then, to gain their support, the Japanese upheld their prestige, restored pensions, and preserved their authority at least in Malay custom and Islamic religion.
Sent 18: The Chinese, especially those identifying with Mao Tse Tung's combat against the Japanese, were at first massacred in the thousands, but later courted as middlemen for Japanese-run business operations.

SOLUTION:
What was the outcome of the first attack in the Pacific War?