December 2, 1985

A three-judge court today acquitted the armed forces Chief of Staff, Gen. Fabian C. Ver, and all 25 other defendants of involvement in the August 1983 assassination of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. President Ferdinand E. Marcos immediately accepted a request for reinstatement by General Ver, who has been on a leave of absence as chief of staff since accusations were brought against him in connection with the assassination. In a statement Mr. Marcos said the reinstatement would be ''for such period as may be decided upon by me and on the advice of the senior officers of the armed forces.'' 'Thank God It's All Over' ''Thank God it's all over,'' said General Ver as security guards hurried him from the hot and crowded courtroom. In a 90-page decision that took more than two hours to read, the court supported the military's contention that Mr. Aquino was killed by a lone gunman, possibly working for the Communists, and not by a military conspiracy, as the prosecution had charged.

The gold medallion Leslie Goodman-Malamuth wears around her neck serves as an emblem of her lifelong struggle as the child of an interfaith marriage. On one side, it has a Star of David; on the other, an engraving of St. Christopher rescuing a shipwrecked child. Miss Goodman-Malamuth, a tall woman with honey-colored hair, turns the Star of David to the world because she identifies herself as a Jew. ''But there's this other side I keep hidden,'' she said. ''The medallion sums up the conflict.''

AT the end of a dirt road in Catskill, N.Y., the white 14-room Victorian house sits on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River and mountains in the distance. Were he in the mood for a picture-postcard view, it is what Michael Tyson, boxing's hottest new heavyweight (13-0, 13 knockouts), would see from the front porch of this house that has stood for more than a century. But on this cloudy yet mild November afternoon, his birds - the more than 100 pigeons he has acquired since turning pro last March - are what preoccupy Tyson. In a crew neck sweater and gray leather trousers, Tyson steps briskly across the front lawn to the coop built months earlier. Thirteen steps up a metal ladder, from a platform just outside the coop, Tyson shoos the birds and then watches them circle a nearby tree. In formation, the pigeons fly with a gentle whooshing sound broken only by the papery flapping of wings as one of the creatures breaks ranks and heads back to home base.

Here in the snow-carpeted farmland of the Genesee Valley, a sport of nobility has been recast as the winter amusement of teachers, gasoline station owners and country lawyers. The Genesee Valley Hunt was founded by W. Austin Wadsworth, an aristocratic Army major, in 1876 as an egalitarian pastime in this region 25 miles south of Rochester. This weekend, 60 riders, 29 hounds and a master of the hunt - a fifth-generation descendant of the valley's first settlers - spent four hours in high-speed pursuit of their elusive quarry. ''Come, come, come away,'' barked W. Austin Wadsworth, the founder's grandson and the master of the hunt, to his pack of hounds as Saturday's event was nearing its finish. A fox had been sighted and Mr. Wadsworth, with the help of his commanding voice and his sparkling, brass bugle, was regrouping the hounds, hoping they would pick up the fox's scent and start a chase.

American officials acknowledged today that three American military officers traveled on a C-130 aircraft to Malta with Egyptian commandos who carried out an assault on a hijacked Egyptair jetliner last Sunday. They said the senior United States military official on the flight was Gen. Robert Wiggin, who oversees United States military programs in Egypt. But the officials, who asked not to be named, said the American officers who accompanied the Egyptians were not specialists in counterterrorism and did not take part in the effort to retake the aircraft. The United States officers were sent primarily as a gesture of political support for the Egyptians, Administration officials said. ''These three men represented United States moral support for Egypt,'' said one high-ranking official.