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WEEKEND TV : Tian An Men Square and Summit Summations

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Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the Chinese government’s bloody crackdown on the democracy movement in Tian An Men Square and, with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev wrapping up his meetings with President Bush in Washington, the weekend will be filled with news, analysis and spin control.

Both “Sunday Today,” 5 a.m. (4)(39), 7 a.m. (36), and “Sunday Morning,” 8:30 a.m. (2), will feature reports on conditions in China and the status of the student democracy movement one year after the massacre. Both programs will also provide extensive coverage of developments at the summit.

Presidents Gorbachev and Bush are scheduled to appear together to answer questions from the Washington and foreign press corps Sunday at 7 a.m. The press conference will be carried live by CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN. Most of the regularly scheduled weekend news programs will also present their own perspectives on the summit.

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Broadway will take over center stage Sunday night at 9 p.m. as Channels 2 and 8 broadcast the 44th annual Tony Awards. Kathleen Turner hosts.

And KCET Channel 28 will rebroadcast “Henson’s Place,” a 1986 documentary on the late Muppet-magician Jim Henson, today and Sunday at 7 p.m. The program traces Henson’s career from his creation of Kermit the Frog as a college student in the ‘50s to the completion of the film “Labyrinth.”

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