February 11, 2004

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts rolled to commanding victories in the Tennessee and Virginia primaries on Tuesday, solidifying his position as the perhaps unstoppable front-runner for the Democratic nomination and dealing a serious blow to his two Southern rivals. Mr. Kerry won by substantial margins in each state, and surveys of voters leaving the polls showed that he ran well among whites and blacks alike. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina and Gen. Wesley K. Clark, who fought hard in their native region to halt Mr. Kerry's drive to the nomination, finished far behind.

Cingular and Vodafone are expected to submit bid for AT&T Wireless; Nextel is long shot but could submit offer for stock; NTT DoCoMo is not expected to participate (M)

Ex-Financial Officer of Tyco Takes the Stand at His Trial In his first day of testimony in his trial on criminal fraud charges, Mark H. Swartz, left, the former chief financial officer of Tyco International, told jurors that he had never broken the law while at the company. Meanwhile, lawyers for L. Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco's former chief executive and Mr. Swartz's co-defendant, rested his defense without calling any witnesses. [Page C3.]

Article on Carrie Fisher's new book, The Best Awful; Fisher, in interview, says she wanted to make book memoir but could not adhere to truth; comments on bipolar disorder and her childhood; photo (M)

OPEC seeks to strengthen its grip on world oil markets with announcement of cuts in production, aggressively displaying its desire to maintain oil prices at their highest sustained level in two decades; prices rise in response, up more than 3 percent in New York, to $33.87 per barrel; formal reduction in output by OPEC, intended to withdraw one million barrels of crude oil per day from market beginning in April, would lower group's objective to 23.5 million barrels per day; OPEC members also call for stricter adherence to their own quotas in effort to reduce overproduction by further 1.5 million barrels per day; graphs; photo (M)