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SUMMING UP IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS

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The congressional Iran- contra hearings are in recess for the weekend. Time to analyze what was said this week in testimony by Lt. Col. Oliver North.

Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.), who head the Senate committee investigating the affair, will provide their assessment on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday (9:30 a.m., Channels 2 and 8).

“This Week With David Brinkley” will take a slightly broader view. Its guests will be Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft and Adm. Stansfield Turner, former CIA director. The ABC News program will be seen Sunday at 11:30 a.m. on Channels 3, 10 and 42, and at noon on Channel 7.

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NBC’s “Meet the Press” will analyze the hearings with Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine) and Adm. Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA, Sunday at 9:30 a.m. (Channels 4, 36 and 39).

Retired Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, who helped engineer the arms shipments to Iran and the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan rebels, will discuss North’s testimony on “John McLaughlin’s One on One,” 9:30 a.m. (28).

Tonight, meanwhile, CBS’ “West 57th” newsmagazine takes a different look at the U.S.-Nicaragua connection, investigating allegations that the CIA and North used drug traffickers to help get arms to the contras.

In other stories tonight (10 p.m., Channels 2 and 8), “West 57th” profiles comedian Jay Leno and photographer Annie Liebovitz and reports on a clergyman’s efforts to teach disadvantaged children to fly.

Here are other weekend programs.

TODAY: “Teen Talk” focuses on sex education, 8 a.m. (9). . . .

“Collectors,” a series about people with interesting and unusual collections, begins a 13-week run at 10 a.m. (28). . . .

According to population estimates, the planet’s 5-billionth person will be born today. “Day of Five Billion” looks at what kind of future this boy or girl can expect, 7:15 p.m. WTBS cable. . . .

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KCET repeats “Clash of Cultures,” a documentary about problems between blacks and Koreans in South Central Los Angeles, adding this time out a panel discussion about the program and the current climate, 7:30 p.m. (28). . . .

Marilyn Horne, Dawn Upshaw, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alicia de Larrocha join in the “Mostly Mozart Festival,” 8:30 p.m. (28). . . .

Jazz musician Frank Morgan performs and discusses his battle with drug addiction in “The Frank Morgan Quintet,” 11 p.m. (28). . . .

Bill Murray hosts a “Saturday Night Live” repeat, 11:30 p.m. (4)(36)(39).

SUNDAY: “Sunday Morning” looks in on Detroit 20 years after its race riots, recalls the life of George Gershwin and profiles painter Jacob Lawrence, 8 a.m. (2)(8). . . .

Bill Honig, California’s superintendent of public instruction, visits “Newsmakers,” 10 a.m. (2). . . .

“Tony Brown’s Journal” examines reasons for the lack of black coaches in professional sports, 10 a.m. (28). . . .

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President Reagan’s nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court will be discussed on “At Issue,” 10:30 a.m. (2). . . .

“The McLaughlin Group” debates current affairs at 10:30 a.m. (4), 5:30 p.m. (50). . . .

John Sculley, the chairman of Apple Computers Inc., talks about whether office computers have led to increased productivity, on “Business World,” 11:30 a.m. (7), 12:30 p.m. (3)(42). . . .

“Firing Line” looks at problems confronting the Catholic Church, 4 p.m. (28). . . .

Viewers can visit the Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture in Paris on “Godzilla Meets Mona Lisa,” 6 p.m. (28). . . .

In a repeat broadcast, “60 Minutes” visits Richard Miller, the former FBI agent convicted of supplying information to the Soviets, profiles Quincy Jones and reports on parents who provide drug and alcohol to their children, 7 p.m. (2)(8).

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