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JERUSALEM, June 22--Prime Minister Menachem Begin has decided to move his office and the Cabinet's conference room from West Jerusalem to East Jerusalem, the largely Arab sector of the city captured by the Israeli Army in the 1967 war, a Government official said today.

A rented car that the police believe Howard (Buddy) Jacobson used in his escape on May 31 from the Brooklyn House of Detention was found yesterday in a parking lot at La Guardia Airport, where it had been since June 10.

NEW DELHI, Monday, June 23--Sanjay Gandhi, the son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, died here today in the crash of a small plane.

Foreign exchange trading in the United States has grown almost fivefold since 1977, with the West German mark the most actively traded currency, according to a study released today by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

WASHINGTON, June 22--The District of Columbia Police Department said today that its investigators had found no evidence of electronic eavesdropping in the office of Mary Crisp, co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, who had expressed suspicions that her office might have been bugged.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., June 22 --In desperate search for a victory after two consecutive losses, the Cosmos gave an uninspiring performance but still achieved their goal with a 2-0 triumph over the Fort Lauderdale Strikers before 70,312 at Giants Stadium today.

Angel Claudio, short and spare and dark, was the kind of boy who never did anything seriously wrong, or positively right, but there was nothing in his past that irrevocably drove him toward a cell on Rikers Island.

In remolding the hapless, lifeless Oakland A's in his image, Billy Martin has turned them into a running, basestealing, bunting bunch of players. In cutting off the Yankees' winning streak at nine games yesterday, the A's even used a rarely seen bunt double.

LOS ANGELES AFTER more than five years in the minor leagues and nearly a month on the bench, Josh de los Santos Moreno appeared in the starting lineup of a major league baseball team for the first time last Wednesday afternoon.

The Export-Import Bank, incorporated by Congress in 1945 to help finance the sale of American exports, is confronted by growing criticism of its president and an impending budget crunch that threatens the bank's lending activities.

In the face of nationwide recession, the economy of New York City as measured by the strength of its office-leasing market is more than holding its own, real estate analysts report.