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1. 1. G.W. Ashworth, ex-journalist, dies - timesdispatch.com

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   Published on: 8/3/2001   Last Visited: 8/3/2001

   Mr. Ashworth , who covered national strategic affairs for the Christian Science Monitor and later , as a Senate professional staff member , was instrumental in the adoption of some of the nation's chief strategic arms measures , died of a heart attack Tuesday in a Fairfax hospital. He had been on kidney dialysis for six months and had struggled for years with diabetes.
   
   He entered journalism in 1960 as a copy editor at the Richmond Times-Dispatch , for which he later covered Chesterfield County from 1963 to 1967. While he was there , he fell in love with a fellow reporter who became his wife.
   
   From 1967 to 1972 , he was a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor , including a six-month stint as the paper's Saigon bureau chief who followed front-line action during the Vietnam War. He also covered the Pentagon and national security issues.
   
   After pursuing news of war and arms , he dedicated the rest of his life to the pursuit of peace , becoming an expert on arms control and national security. From 1972 to 1979 , he was a staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Arms Control Subcommittee.
   
   He wasn't a pacifist. He did not suffer fools gladly. He really cared about peace. He worked incredibly hard doing research on obscure issues. He was deeply distressed that they are considering tossing the ABM treaty , his wife said.
   
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   Mr. Ashworth led staff teams supporting committee and Senate approval of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 , the Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaties in 1990 and START in 1991-92.
   
   He was the chief staffer for the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.
   
   Mr. Ashworth was the principal committee staffer for the Glenn-Pell-Helms bill that became the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act , approved by the Senate in 1994. From 1985 to about 1994 , he was an adviser to the Senate Arms Control and Observer Group and often accompanied senators on overseas visits.
   
   At his retirement , he was senior adviser on arms control to ranking Democratic members and other Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats. He was part of a successful effort leading to Senate approval of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
   
   A Washington native , he spent his early years in Kensington , Md. , and his teen-age years in Orange.
   
   In 1960 he earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in history and English at Washington and Lee University and later did postgraduate work in history at the University of Richmond.
   
   Mr. Ashworth served in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963 , leaving the service as a captain.
   
   Survivors besides his wife include two daughters , Jennifer Hope Ashworth of Annandale and Anne Wieder of Fairfax ; and a brother , James Henry Ashworth of Richmond.