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                                                                  EXHIBIT 10.61

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC.,                :
                                                    :    00 Civ. 1169 (JSM)
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                                    Plaintiff,      :
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         - against -                                :    PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
                                                    :    ENTERED UPON CONSENT
CONSUMERS PACKAGING INC.,                           :
GGC, L.L.C., HILLSBORO GLASS CO.,                   :
 and ANCHOR GLASS CONTAINER CORP.,                  :
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                                    Defendants.     :
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         Based on the consent of the parties and pursuant to Rule 65 of the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court hereby preliminarily enjoins the
defendants Consumers Packaging Inc., GGC, L.L.C., Hillsboro Glass Co. and Anchor
Glass Container Corp. (collectively, the "Consumers Group"), their officers,
agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and all persons in active concert or
participation with them:

                  1. from disclosing Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
         ("Owens-Brockway") Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets
         (as those terms are defined in P. 1(i) of the Technical Assistance and
         Licensing Agreement dated December 18, 1996, among Owens-Brockway and
         the members of the Consumers Group; hereinafter, the "TALA") to any
         person not expressly authorized by the TALA to possess such Technical
         Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets, including but not limited to
         any subsidiary or affiliate of any of them which is not a party to the
         TALA, such as Consumers SrL in Teramo, Italy;



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                  2. from implementing or installing in any facility any
         equipment or machinery for glass container manufacturing that
         incorporates or embodies, in whole or in part, Owens-Brockway Technical
         Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets, provided, however, that any
         member of the Consumers Group may transfer any such equipment or
         machinery that is already in the possession of any member of the
         Consumers Group between or among any of their facilities within the
         licensed territory in which any such equipment or machinery is
         currently used;

                  3. from disclosing or utilizing any Owens-Brockway Technical
         Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets to assist others in the
         construction, utilization or selection of equipment or machinery for
         any facility where equipment or machinery that incorporates or
         embodies, in whole or in part, Owens-Brockway Technical Information
         and/or Licensed Trade Secrets is not currently located;

                  4. to prepare a detailed inventory, on a facility-by-facility
         basis, of all technical documents, engineering drawings or similar
         materials describing or containing Owens- Brockway Technical
         Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets (including but not limited to
         Owens-Brockway aperture cards and Owens-Brockway technical assistance
         bulletins, manuals and technical correspondence), and to deliver said
         inventory to Owens-Brockway by Friday, May 12, 2000;

                  5. to maintain all such technical documents, engineering
         drawings or similar materials describing or containing Owens-Brockway
         Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets in a secure manner,
         to control access thereto and to maintain a log of the persons
         accessing such materials and the materials accessed;

                  6. to prepare a detailed inventory, on a facility-by-facility
         basis, of all equipment or machinery for glass container manufacturing
         that incorporates or embodies, in whole or in part, Owens-Brockway
         Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets, and to deliver
         said inventory to Owens-Brockway by Monday, May 29, 2000;

                  7. to provide to Owens-Brockway, within fifteen (15) days
         following the end of each calendar quarter, a current version of the
         inventories described in Paragraphs 4 and 6 above, at a level of detail
         sufficient to show any transfers or dispositions of the items subject
         to the inventories;

                  8. to maintain, in each plant or facility containing equipment
         or machinery that incorporates or embodies, in whole or in part,
         Owens-Brockway Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets, a
         current log of all such equipment and machinery;

                  9. to provide any person who expresses to any member of the
         Consumers Group interest in acquiring any property, security or
         collateral interest of any nature, contingent or otherwise, in (a) any
         equipment or machinery that incorporates or embodies, in whole or in
         part, Owens-Brockway Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade
         Secrets, or (b)

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         any plant or facility containing such equipment or machinery, prior to
         the acquisition by such person of any such interest, with notice of (x)
         the TALA, (y) the fact that such machinery or equipment may be subject
         to the TALA, and (z) this preliminary injunction;

                  10. to retrieve all Owens-Brockway Technical Information
         and/or Licensed Trade Secrets disclosed by any of them or any of their
         subsidiaries or affiliates from all persons which are not parties to
         the TALA, including their subsidiaries and affiliates, and to instruct
         and direct all such persons to cease using any and all equipment or
         machinery for glass container manufacturing, to the extent that it
         incorporates or embodies Owens-Brockway Technical Information and/or
         Licensed Trade Secrets, by Tuesday, May 2, 2000;

                  11. to cause Consumers SrL to cease using each and every item
         of equipment or machinery that incorporates or embodies Owens-Brockway
         Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets by Thursday, April
         13, 2000; to furnish evidence satisfactory to the Court, by Friday,
         April 14, 2000, that Consumers SrL has ceased using any and all such
         equipment or machinery; and to remove all such equipment or machinery
         from Italy and to return it to the United States by the later of
         Tuesday, May 2, 2000, or within ten (10) days following the release of
         such equipment or machinery from any court order in Italy restraining
         its removal from Italy;

                  12. to comply with all of their obligations under the TALA
         respecting preservation of confidentiality of Owens-Brockway Technical
         Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets and respecting the
         territorial limitations on the use thereof;

                  13. to pay any outstanding royalties (including interest) owed
         to Owens-Brockway and to make future quarterly payments at the rate
         specified in the TALA on a timely basis;

                  14. to permit an audit of the records of each member of the
         Consumers Group in accordance with the TALA;

                  15. to provide to the Court and to Owens-Brockway, within
         thirty (30) days of the end of each calendar quarter beginning June 30,
         2000, an affidavit or declaration of Consumers' chairman certifying
         that each member of the Consumers Group: (a) has made royalty payments
         to Owens-Brockway upon the basis and at the rate specified in the TALA;
         (b) has not disclosed Owens-Brockway Technical Information and/or
         Licensed Trade Secrets to any unauthorized person or used any
         Owens-Brockway Technical Information and/or Licensed Trade Secrets in
         any location where such use is not permitted under the TALA; and (c)
         has provided Owens-Brockway with the updated inventories described in
         Paragraph 7 above, upon penalty of contempt of Court if such
         certificate should be inaccurate; and


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                  16. to notify each and every one of its or their parent
         companies, subsidiaries or affiliates which is not a party to this
         action of the entry of this preliminary injunction, by sending a true
         copy thereof via certified mail, within five (5) days after entry of
         the preliminary injunction.



Dated:     April 14, 2000                         /s/ John S. Martin, Jr.
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                                                  John S. Martin, Jr.
                                                  United States District Judge