Fund-Raising, U.S. Economy, GOP Are Part of the Agenda

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

Today

“Saturday Journal”: Tobi Edwards, deputy press secretary for Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. (R-Okla.); Naomi Seligman, press secretary for Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Today”: Addictions to food and exercise; guide to manliness; software and the year 2000, 6 a.m. (4)(36).

“Evans & Novak”: Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday, 7 a.m. CNN.

“John McLaughlin’s One on One”: House Speaker Newt Gingrich; fund-raising, 2:30 p.m. (28).

“Tony Brown’s Journal”: AIDS research, 3:30 p.m. (28).

“Inside Politics Weekend”: Rahm Emanuel, presidential senior advisor, Sens. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), 3:30 p.m.; repeats midnight, CNN.

“Capital Gang”: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), 4 and 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“Larry King Weekend”: Actor Harrison Ford, 6 and 11 p.m. CNN.

“McLaughlin Group”: The Thompson hearings, the Republican Party and the economy, 6:30 p.m. (4).

Sunday

“Today”: Harrison Ford; workaholics, 6 a.m. (4)(36).

“Pacesetters”: Celes King II, state chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, 6 a.m. (5).

“Meet the Press”: Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Franklin Raines, director of the Office of Management and Budget, 7 a.m. (4)(36).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: Tractor expert Carol Panowicz; Lilith Fair summer tour with Sarah McLachlan, Jewel and Suzanne Vega; animal survival-extinction in the Coronado Islands, Mexico; Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition; pianist Jimmy Amandie, 7:30 a.m. (2).

“Fox News Sunday”: Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.); Rahm Emanuel, senior advisor to President Clinton; Jack Kemp; Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein president, 8 a.m. (11).

“Face the Nation”: Sens. John Glenn (D-Ohio) and Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), 9 a.m. (2).

“Late Edition”: Sens. Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, 9 a.m. CNN.

“This Week”: Politics and the budget, with Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), 10 a.m. (7); 11 a.m. (3)(42).

“Life & Times”: Ron Unz, chairman, English for the Children, Silvia Argueta, MALDEF staff attorney, Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan human rights activist, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, 10:30 a.m. (28).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: Ted Deeds, Law Enforcement of America; Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.), 2:30 p.m. CNN.

“Crossfire Sunday”: Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood, Rep. Tom A. Coburn (R-Okla.), 4:30 p.m. CNN.

“60 Minutes”: Back pay for South Vietnamese CIA-trained commandos; international adoption fiasco; composer Randy Newman, 7 p.m. (2).