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...team believes it succeeded in reassuring the South Koreans. Much more difficult will be toughening the antiproliferation measures aimed at North Korea and moving toward stiffer sanctions. Even after Pyongyang's nuclear test, China remains wary of taking any steps that could destabilize the regime, says a diplomat in East Asia, particularly when it appears to be arranging a transition...
...Such letters seemed to give Rumsfeld some solace amid media commentary that tended to focus on all that had gone wrong - the mistakes made in the Iraq War, the difficult relations with the military chiefs, the tensions with Congress, the quarrels with other NSC members. As low as his popularity was when he left office - Gallup/Harris polls showed him at 34% - Rumsfeld still found that when he dined out at a restaurant or walked along a street, people approached him eager to shake his hand...
...Told that even some senior officers who dealt closely with him found him difficult, Rumsfeld said it was the work itself that was difficult, and he defended his own manner as nothing the officers shouldn't have been able to tolerate. "The idea that guys with three and four stars on their shoulders can't take tough questions - well, then, they shouldn't have three or four stars on their shoulders...
...want to take care of everyone who needs it, but it's becoming increasingly difficult financially," says Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, one of several interest groups beginning to draw battle lines as the details of potential health-reform legislation begin to trickle...
...trivial," she says. "Every action is important because it is a step forward." Vikram Srivastava from Child Rights and You, however, feels punishing the families is "anti-poor." Because child labor is linked so closely to the economic conditions their families live in, activists say it will be difficult to reign in the practice until poverty is also tackled head...