Dentsu does not finance television programmes.
Over the next two years, it reported spending more than $16 million to support his agenda, financing television commercials advocating his positions.
Soft-money donations are given to political parties, often collected in checks of $100,000 or more and are used to finance television advertisements attacking Congressional or presidential candidates.
The money would probably go to finance television advertisements and other activities, like a get-out-the-vote drive, one official said.
After the war, Stirling formed organizations to encourage racial integration in colonial Africa, to provide security services for foreign heads of state, and to finance television stations in developing nations.
Both Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry are raising money to finance television advertising in swing states in the months before the conventions, when each will receive about $75 million in public financing for the general election.
However, she attached conditions on her proposal that Mr. Lazio's aides have dismissed as untenable: that he make certain that a dozen or so independent committees that are financing television campaigns attacking Mrs. Clinton halt their efforts as well.
"The entire race has come down to this: we must win Wisconsin," Dr. Dean wrote in the e-mail message, which included a plea for $50 contributions to finance television advertisements there.
