October 23, 1984

President Ferdinand E. Marcos announced today that he would refer the findings of the citizen's panel investigating the assassination last year of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. to a special court ''because military men are involved.'' The assassination had ignited an outpouring of anti-Government protest and worsened the Philippines' economic problems. The five-member board unanimously rejected the Government assertions that a lone Communist gunman, Rolando Galman, was somehow able to penetrate a 1,199-man security guard around the Manila International Airport and shoot Mr. Aquino at point- blank range. However, the board was split over how high up in the military hierarchy to go in naming officers involved in the alleged conspiracy. In particular, the board split over naming Gen. Fabian C. Ver, chief of staff of the armed forces, and a close associate of President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale resumed their Presidential campaigning in key states today after a debate that strategists for both men said had not provided Mr. Mondale with the lift he needed to pose an immediate threat to the President. Meanwhile, White House political advisers said President Reagan's lead in some of his private polls now stood in the range of 10 percentage points. Most public opinion surveys showed that the 90-minute debate Sunday night had been judged a draw by television viewers, and campaign officials for both sides said it set the stage for two weeks of hard fighting on the leadership issue. Rivals Trade Charges Today, Mr. Reagan, standing in the shadow of a B-1 bomber, accused his opponent of a ''frightening'' lack of commitment to a strong defense, while Mr. Mondale denounced Mr. Reagan as the ''most detached, the most remote and the most uninformed President in modern history.'' (Page A24.)

Central Intelligence Agency officials told two Senators today that no copies of the C.I.A. manual on guerrilla warfare were edited to remove advice on ''neutralizing'' Nicaraguan Government officials. During the Presidential debate Sunday night, President Reagan said C.I.A. officers in Central America and in Washington had edited the manual before it was printed, deleting material that was in violation of United States policy. Only 12 copies escaped the agency's editing process ''some way or other,'' the President said. Today White House officials said the President had misspoken, meaning that only 12 copies of the manual had been sent to Washington. Administration officials still ''don't have all the information,'' one White House official said.

One out of every 10 high school and junior high school students in New York State questioned in a recent survey described themselves as ''hooked'' on alcohol, and some said they had even been drunk in class. The survey, conducted for the state's Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, estimated that 53 percent of the state's 1.5 million secondary-school students had been drunk at least once in the last year. One in 10 got drunk at least once a week and 13 percent said they had attended classes while ''drunk, stoned or high'' on alcohol, according to the survey. ''Hooked'' was a term used in one of the survey questions, in which the students were asked if they felt they were hooked on alcohol. Eleven percent said they were.

JERUSALEM IN a determined search for tangible evidence of the Roman past in old Jerusalem, Israeli archeologists have excavated the main Roman entryway into the Old City and succeeded in unearthing a guard tower, the tallest preserved Roman structure in the country. But the dig that led to these finds was marked as much by frustration as it was by success. And it may well be remembered most for the ingenuity brought to the task - even including a bit of intrigue, an ancient treasure map and the use of laser technology to recreate, in spirit at least, some of the past that remains elusive. The irresistible lure that began it all was a majestic column. In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Hadrian erected a huge column, apparently topped by a statue of himself, in the plaza just inside the main gateway to what was then Roman Jerusalem and what is now known as the Old City. The column served as the visual centerpiece of the walled city, the starting point for measuring all distances in the region, and was considered the major architectural feature of Hadrian's Aeolia Capitolina, as Jerusalem was then called.