March 15, 1986

The Communist Party of the Philippines, which has been waging an increasingly successful guerrilla war, does not expect success from any peace talks that may be held with the new Government, a senior Communist official said today. The official, presenting the party's position for the first time, said Communist leaders were willing to discuss a cease-fire with the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino. But in an uncompromising stand, he stressed that a successful outcome would depend upon a willingness by Mrs. Aquino to radically alter her Government and make sweeping changes. He said any chance for reconciliation depended on whether she could ''reform'' the Philippine military and dismantle the ''fascist structure'' of local politicians and private armies created by Ferdinand E. Marcos when he was President.

In announcing a foreign policy framework today that commits the United States to ''democratic revolution'' around the world, President Reagan offered a rationale for his efforts to obtain aid from Congress for rebels in Nicaragua. But officials acknowledged that Mr. Reagan's expression of support for democracy might create a new problem in dealing with anti-Communist nations that support United States policy but persist in human rights abuses. The President's message to Congress declared that the United States opposed all dictatorships, whether of the right or the left. In essence, he said his Administration had been applauded for its successful efforts to remove rightist dictators in Haiti and the Philippines but scorned by some of the same people for opposing the leftist Government in Nicaragua.

Moments before Donald R. Manes plunged a knife into his heart Thursday night, his wife, Marlene, had urgently telephoned his psychiatrist about admitting the former Borough President voluntarily to a mental hospital, Mr. Manes's lawyer and police officials said yesterday. They said Mr. Manes had joined in the telephone conversation on an extension in the kitchen of the couple's home in Queens, and stabbed himself during a pause that came when his psychiatrist went to answer his doorbell. An Increasing Despondency Mr. Manes's lawyer, Michael F. Armstrong, said Mr. Manes's suicide came amid an increasing despondency that paralleled the growing focus upon him in the investigations into municipal corruption - a despondency heightened by the decision of Mr. Manes's longtime friend, Geoffrey G. Lindenauer, to plead guilty last Monday and agree to testify against him in return for possibly lighter penalties. ''He had been not looking well for the last few days,'' said Mr. Armstrong, who spent five hours in his office at 26 Broadway with Mr. Manes Thursday afternoon, reviewing details of the investigations into his activities. Mr. Armstrong described Mr. Manes's emotional state during the meeting as ''terrible'' and said that as a result, he had ''talked to the family, talked to him and talked to some doctors about getting him into the hospital.''

Federal prosecutors began yesterday to reorganize their search for the inside information on municipal corruption that they had been pressuring Donald R. Manes to give them in the days before he killed himself. The prosecutors had threatened to indict Mr. Manes on extortion charges within days, according to officials familiar with the case, but his lawyer urged delay, saying Mr. Manes's mental state was so fragile he might not be able to stand trial. A senior law-enforcement official said the suicide of Mr. Manes on Thursday night would force Federal prosecutors to ''regroup,'' shifting their inquiries to new targets who might not otherwise have received their full attention until the investigation of Mr. Manes had been resolved. Spotlight on Bronx Leader One immediate effect of Mr. Manes's death, officials said, will be to shift much of the spotlight in the city's sprawling corruption inquiries to the Bronx Democratic chairman, Stanley M. Friedman, who now becomes the most prominent public figure caught up in the investigations.

Senior Administration officials said today that time was running out on holding the next Soviet-American summit meeting this summer and that it was possible the meeting might not occur before late this year or early next. The inability to set a date for the summit meeting, which by agreement is to be in the United States, has become a point of contention between Moscow and Washington. Setting a date has become linked in Soviet statements to progress on arms control, such as a ban on all nuclear tests, much to the irritation of American officials. The Soviet Union has also said the American decision to cut the size of Soviet missions to the United Nations would harm the prospects for a summit meeting.