The news that appeared in the Jakarta's newspaper Kompas on March 31, 1992, mentioning Bill Clinton was formerly studied at Oxford University, with the headline: Clinton Admits of Smoking Marijuana Once.

 

translation:

"US Presidential democrats candidate, Bill Clinton, Sunday (29/3) admits of smoking marijuana once when he was 22 years old, studying in the Oxford University, England. Yet his competitor Jerry Brown gives the sign of not going to use such issue in his campaign."

 

 

 

Similar news found in the International Herald Tribune, as follows:

 

Clinton Tried Marijuana as a Student, He Says

 

International Herald Tribune

Monday, March 30, 1992

 

Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Sunday that he briefly experimented with marijuana while a student in England more than 20 years ago.

In a television interview, Mr. Clinton, 45, was asked if he ever violated international law. "When I was in England," he said, "I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and didn't like it. I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again."

Possession of marijuana is illegal in Britain; Mr. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford from 1968 to 1970.

There is doubt whether the admission will further damage Mr. Clinton, whose campaign has been hobbled by questions of character. Last year, when it was revealed that Judge Clarence Thomas had admitted taking "several puffs" of marijuana, the White House called it "inconsequential."