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An official handout issued by the Liberian Department of Information and Cultural Affairs gives the following report on airport interview. PRESS RELEASE MONROVIA, April 30 :-The visiting Islamic Ahmadiyya Head, Hazrat Mirza Ahmad Sahib, today disclosed plans for the construction of an Ahmadiyya School and Medical Clinic in Monrovia. Speaking to reporters at a Press conference at the Ducor Hotel, Caliph Sahib noted that since the coming of the Ahmadiyya Movement to West Africa, 50 years ago, it has not taken a penny away. The mission is only here to serve the people in developing their capacities and capa bilities. This should, in turn, open avenues of a cultivated living relation ship between them and their Creator, he declared. The Caliph said although the Movement is small in Liberia, it has nothing but love and sympathy for the Liberian people. "Love and sym pathy will triumph", he added. Answering a reporter's question about how his sect differs from other Muslim religious sects, the Caliph replied that all the sects believe in Allah. Allah has infinite attributes. Each of these attributes has its mani festations. Allah is Almighty, the source of all knowledge. All sects believe in Mohammad as the Holy Prophet and in the Koran. The Caliph submitted that there are no differences in fundamental principles of Islam but when it comes to interpretation, there are diver gences. The 63-year-old Caliph yesterday conferred with President Tubman in a private audience and presented him with a Pakistani silver handi craft set. Later, at the Ducor Hotel, the Ahmadiyya Mission here tendered a dinner in the Caliph's honour. Brigadier General Samuel Johnson was President Tubman's special representative on the occasion. 52