H-4 is the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co.'s ledger label for a pumping station in the Jordanian desert on its pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean. At this remote and inhospitable spot, in an air-conditioned concrete resthouse surrounded by nothing but miles of rock and sand, Jordan's young (20) King Hussein and his cousin, Iraq's young (20) King Feisal II, met last week to discuss the future of Jordan.
Though Feisal arrived in the company of Iraqi Premier Nuri es-Said, Hussein flew to the rendezvous (piloting his de Havilland Dove himself) without his Prime...
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