RICHARDSON TO APPEAL

Lawyers for Allen Richardson say they'll appeal his eight-month prison
sentence to the New York State parole division.

Vancouver lawyer Michael Bolton said last night Richardson will meet with
counsel tomorrow to prepare the appeal.

Richardson, 50, of West Vancouver, learned this week he will not be paroled
from a New York State prison until March 2001.

He turned himself in last month after almost three decades in Canada.
Richardson, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced in 1971 to up to four years in
prison for selling $20 worth of LSD to an undercover cop in Rochester, N.Y.

He fled to Canada after serving three months and lived an exemplary life,
working as a lab technician at UBC's TRIUMF facility. His wife Amalia, 52,
is battling breast cancer.

Bolton said parole boards can designate a geographic area where an inmate
must remain. He said it's not uncommon for U.S. citizens, jailed in Canada,
to return home on parole.