Teacher: You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Paragraph- Sent 1: A Republican bid to keep the government open past Friday includes no new money for the construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to several congressional aides familiar with ongoing talks.
Sent 2: GOP leaders submitted the new offer Tuesday afternoon in an effort to appease Democrats, whose votes are needed to avert a shutdown of federal agencies, several House and Senate aides said.
Sent 3: However, Republicans also insisted on increases in border security and defense spending, including money to repair existing fencing and new surveillance technology to patrol the nearly 2,000-mile border.
Sent 4: Democrats have indicated that they would support such appropriations so long as no money goes toward an actual wall.
Question: Who has to be appeased to keep the government open?.
Solution: 1, 2.
Reason: The question is: Who has to be appeased to keep the government open? The phrase "appease Democrats" is mentioned in Sent 2, about accepting offer that is mentioned in Sent 1 to "keep the government open". So, Sent 1 and Sent 2 are the sentences needed to answer this question.

Now, solve this instance: Paragraph- Sent 1: During the short transition, Rice and Hadley concentrated on staffing and organizing the NSC.
Sent 2: Their policy priorities differed from those of the Clinton administration.
Sent 3: Those priorities included China, missile defense, the collapse of the Middle East peace process, and the Persian Gulf.
Sent 4: Generally aware that terrorism had changed since the first Bush administration, they paid particular attention to the question of how counterterrorism policy should be coordinated.
Sent 5: Rice had asked University of Virginia history professor Philip Zelikow to advise her on the transition.
Sent 6: Hadley and Zelikow asked Clarke and his deputy, Roger Cressey, for a special briefing on the terrorist threat and how Clarke'sTransnationalThreats Directorate and Counterterrorism Security Group functioned.
Sent 7: In the NSC during the first Bush administration, many tough issues were addressed at the level of the Deputies Committee.
Sent 8: Issues did not go to the principals unless the deputies had been unable to resolve them.
Sent 9: Presidential Decision Directive 62 of the Clinton administration had said specifically that Clarke's Counterterrorism Security Group should report through the Deputies Committee or, at Berger's discretion, directly to the principals.
Sent 10: Berger had in practice allowed Clarke's group to function as a parallel deputies committee, reporting directly to those members of the Principals Committee who sat on the special Small Group.
Sent 11: There, Clarke himself sat as a de facto principal.
Sent 12: Rice decided to change the special structure that had been built to coordinate counterterrorism policy.
Sent 13: It was important to sound policymaking, she felt, that Clarke's interagency committee-like all others-report to the principals through the deputies.
Sent 14: Rice made an initial decision to hold over both Clarke and his entire counterterrorism staff, a decision that she called rare for a new administration.
Sent 15: She decided also that Clarke should retain the title of national counterterrorism coordinator, although he would no longer be a de facto member of the Principals Committee on his issues.
Sent 16: The decision to keep Clarke, Rice said, was "not uncontroversial," since he was known as someone who "broke china," but she and Hadley wanted an experienced crisis manager.
Sent 17: No one else from Berger's staff had Clarke's detailed knowledge of the levers of government.
Sent 18: 168 Clarke was disappointed at what he perceived as a demotion.
Question: What position was Clarke removed from by Rice that made Clarke feel disappointed?.
Student:
15.