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By CLAUDIA COHEN X'hL I nTP Lance eyes 0 mnDDnon Lance racked up during his bank fraud trial. Only recently. Lance ex-Calhoun chairman, whose family owns 17 of the bank's stock had sued Calhoun to force its reluctant officers to cough up Lance says he was Bert Lance Is back in power and probably-out of a $1.1 million financial jam. When the" former U.S. budget chief regained control this week of his Georgia bank, Calhoun First National, it cleared the way for the bank itself to pay the $1.1 million in legal fees that Happy together: Bert Lance LaBelle rf-fsn uL.

i virmr vf-j 9 Ml JOHN nOC MT NEWS Judges Suzy Chaffee and Floy Cohn and contest winner Millie Velasquez GIoQkao-ing in Clio At Regine's Brazilian Carnaval party on Wednesday, the best-dressed guest wore practically no clothes at all. Those watching the annual costume contest included Oscar nominee Robert Duvall, who says he's editing his film "Angelo My Love," about a gypsy boy. Contest judge Sammy Cahn ducked out before voting, reportedly to aid a friend. Another judge. Roy Cohn.

peeked at Suzy Chaffee's ballot before marking his own. "Suzy Chapstick," in a red-sequined Norma Kamali, said she's signed with ICM's Allen Kalmus Hope's She added that both she and her date Prince Lorenzo de Medici have sportswear lines (his sells in Italy; her jeans at J.C. Penney). The winner, who wore a huge Indian headdress and a microscopic bikini, won a trip to Rio. Cyndi Stivers.

charged a whopping $847,403 by Atlanta law firm Powell, Goldstein. Frazer Murphy, for representing him at his 15-week trial, and another $69,761 by a helpful D.C. law firm, says the National Law Journal. Meantime, for his defense in a separate SEC action. Lance was charged $100,000 by D.C.

power-broker lawyers Clark Clifford and Paul Warnke, and $87,490 by an Atlanta firm. All of which, claims Lance, must be paid by Calhoun, which covers bank directors' legal costs when related to bank business. But top Calhoun officers had testified against Lance, who nontheless was acquitted on charges he improperly made unsecured loans to himself, family and friends. Those same officers, plus four anti-Lance directors, resigned this week at Calhoun's annual stockholders meeting. The 16 new directors included Lance, his son David and others more sympathetic with Lance's $1.1 million IOU.

How oSd secretaries fade away Most take the big-bucks route, a la ex-Secretary of State Ed Muskie, who's finally scrapped all that fine talk about teaching or running for the Maine legislature and become a law partner at Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside. They have offices in D.C. (Muskie's base) and United Arab Emirates (giving him a way to travel). Meantime. ex-Health Human Services chief Patricia Harris has opted to lie low as "scholar-in-resi-dence" at the National Academy of Public Administration.

5' 4 NDC tails for end to sweeps Sure, NBC wants to end the sweeps: they came in dead last during the critical February pulse-taking. But NBC insists it has higher motives. "The sweeps are going to kill (the industry). They're killing us now," said Irv Wilson, NBC's new East Coast programming chief, during a Copa lunch tossed by the local chapter of the National TV Academy. What's killing The millions spent on blockbuster movies and ads to pump up ratings during the tri-annual "sweeps." Wilson thinks networks, local stations and admen should pool funds to pay for "year-round ratings." But who'll jump first? Wilson says he's still too new on the job: "When I arrived (in January) Rona was kvetching and Tom (Snyder) was angry.

The first thing I had to do was bring them together." with son David and wife rity mix at Le Cirque. Yesterday we saw Catherine De-neuye, Barbara Walters, designer John Weitz, socialite Rocky Converse and her daughter Maria Janis, wife of pianist Byron Janis. Faberge chief sued by agent Faberge chief George Barrie stiffed his real estate agent? Yes, says Dorothea Rosasco. who says she handled the $1 million sale last fall of Barrie's three bed room duplex at U.N. Plaza (on the 31st-32nd floors, with elevator and river views).

Anyway, Rosasco's just filed suit against Barrie, claiming he hasn't paid her $60,000 commission. "Mr. Barrie always pays his bills promptly." insists his counsel Robert Okin. declining further comment Hot lunch Show biz lunches at the Tea Room, power brokers at "21," literati at the Four Seasons. But you can never quite predict the daily celeb Schaaps divorce; viffe foiled in alimony One of New York's longest-running and liveliest-divorce battles is over.

The winner? ABC sportscaster Dick Schaap, who had offered to settle out-of-court for His offer was rejected by Madeleine Schaap, who insisted on going before a judge. This week a judge finally awarded Madeleine her divorce, custody of their two kids and in alimony and child support, per annum. "I was totally screwed," says Madeleine, claiming Dick (who admitted to adultery in court) makes $400,000 a year. "I'm 43. 1 have no medical or life insurance.

We've lived with no gas, no electricity. We've been without a phone for a year. The rent is $14,000, private schools cost $20,000 a year." What to do? Madeleine, who was getting $1100 a week in temporary alimony, has hired Roy Cohn to handle her appeal. Jerry Ford to Fox? Last week Columbia Pictures snared Fritz Mondale for its board (thanks to banker Herbie Allen, who reportodly first wooed Mondale to work at Allen St Now there's a rumor that ex-President Gerald Ford will join the board of 20th Century Fox if his buddy Marvin Davis buys it Ford already earns over $100,000 a year as a director of six companies, including Fox subsidiary Pebble Beach Corp. Media's man in Pentagon Next man through the swinging door connecting government and journalism: Henry Catto.

former U.S. Protocol chief, more recently owner and chairman of the revitalized Washington Journalism Review, who's quietly become a "consultant" at the Pentagon. Word is Henry will soon be named official Pentagon spokesman. His wife Jessica remains president of WJR. notes the Ear.

Schaap: gets decision jl i I 1 1.