Residents, project officials say, will lift themselves out of poverty.

The ship visited only places to which it had been invited, and project officials said they tried to avoid politics.

If she needed a camera, she told project officials, she'd just ask the Vegans for one.

It was thought prudent, project officials explained, for each of the Five to be questioned separately.

Others say project officials have intimidated critics with threats of legal action.

There is already so much material that project officials are beginning to leave some things out.

Reports of a similar accident nine months earlier had been squelched by project officials.

But project officials said they have managed to accomplish at least 70 percent of their scientific objectives.

Whether it will remain in its present form is now under study by project officials and others.

There were no private transmissions from Mars; project officials screened everything.