Giving in to heavy pressure, the Democratic National Committee distributed a makeshift finance report listing $10 million in contributions and showing nearly $11 million in cash on hand at midmonth.

Allegations that foreign money might have been illegally channeled to the party have put the DNC's fund-raising practices in the spotlight. The heat increased when the party said earlier this week that it didn't plan to file its financial report to meet a pre-Election Day deadline."We made a mistake and we corrected it today," DNC General Chairman Christopher Dodd said Tuesday after deciding to release the financial report after all - to the news media and to the Federal Election Commission. He added that the party is "committed to full disclosure."

Republicans saw it differently.

"What the Democrats have done is equivalent of you taking all your checks and receipts and bills, throwing them in a shoe box with some Popsicle sticks and dropping them off at the IRS and saying `Hey, I filed my taxes,"' GOP Chairman Haley Barbour said today on Fox TV.

Barbour said Republicans would seek a court injunction to prevent the DNC from spending money until a full report is filed with the election commission.

"I don't know what they're hiding, but it's very obvious they're hiding something or otherwise they wouldn't be taking this heat," Barbour said Tuesday.

Democrats "give the word stonewall a bad name," Republican presidential challenger Bob Dole said while campaigning in Denver. He questioned whether the records released Tuesday were complete.

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The inch-thick stack of papers distributed to reporters Tuesday, reflecting activity in the first two weeks of October, appeared to show routine contributions and disbursements. The DNC promised to file a fuller, complete report with the FEC by the end of this week.

According to the papers, the DNC raised nearly $6 million in contributions subject to federal limits and $4 million in "soft money" - gifts not covered under post-Watergate contribution limits.

Half of the soft money came from special interest groups and corporations, including lawyers, unions, Realtors and technology firms.

The party wrote checks totalling $16 million for expenses and money transfers to state committees. It had $10.7 million in cash and was $4.5 million in debt. A breakdown of spending seemed to indicate, however, that only about $3 million was left in the till.

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