Finance Reform on Talk-Show Agendas

Here’s the rundown on guests and topics for the weekend’s public-affairs programs:

TODAY

“Saturday Journal”: 5:30 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Today”: Miami Boat Show; Barbara De Angelis; osteoporosis; Holly Clegg, 6 a.m. (4)(36).

“Evans & Novak”: Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), chemical weapons treaty; President Clinton’s foreign policy, 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday, 7 a.m. CNN.

“John McLaughlin’s One on One”: Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), the balanced budget amendment, Medicare and Social Security, 2:30 p.m. (28).

“Tony Brown’s Journal”: the Ebonics controversy, 3:30 p.m. (28).

“Capital Gang Saturday”: Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.), balanced budget amendment, President Clinton’s scandals and term limits, 4 and 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“Inside Politics Weekend”: Lanny Davis, White House special counsel; Rep. David McIntosh (R-Ind.), White House money trail, 4:30 p.m. CNN.

“Larry King Weekend”: Florence Henderson, 6 and 11 p.m. CNN.

“McLaughlin Group”: crime and financial woes in Washington, Clinton scandals, South Africa, 6:30 p.m. (4).

SUNDAY

“Sunday Journal”: 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“News Conference”: writer-director Ib Melchior, 5 a.m. (4).

“Pacesetters”: Kay Trotter, Alice March, TV’s new rating system, 6 a.m.; repeats at 1:30 a.m. (5).

“Sunday Today”: figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, plastic surgery. 6 a.m. (4)(36).

“Meet the Press”: District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Lonnie Davis, White House special associate, and columnist William Safire discuss government and campaign finance reform, 7 a.m. (4)(36).

“Fox News Sunday”: Lanny Davis, special White House counsel; Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.); rap artist Chuck D and ACLU President Nadine Strossen, 8 a.m. (11).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: Detroit newspaper strike; nontraditional black composers; postcard from Colorado; mystery writer Jan Willem Van de Wattering; ballet dancer Edward Villella, 7:30 a.m. (2).

“Late Edition”: Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Ann Lewis, White House deputy communications director, 9 a.m. CNN.

“This Week”: Bill Richardson, Ambassador to the United Nations; Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), 10 a.m. (7); 11:30 a.m. (3)(42).

“Life & Times”: Larry Kosmont, president of Kosmont & Associates Inc., 10:30 a.m. (28).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: fixing what’s wrong with America’s schools, 2:30 p.m. CNN.

“Face the Nation”: Democratic fund-raising and Whitewater, Sens. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Carl Levin, (D-Mich.), attorney Michael Chertoff and Michael Isikoff of Newsweek magazine, 4:30 p.m. (2).

“Crossfire Sunday”: Should the military train men and women together?, 4:30 p.m. CNN.

“60 Minutes”: Stephen King, 7 p.m. (2).