In past elections militia members have voted for both hardliners and reformists. The player must walk a line between radicals, reformists, and hardliners. They were replaced with Communist Party hardliners. The local police arrested 40 people including 20 Islamist hardliners. Despite opposition from hardliners, he endorsed the proposal in March 1993. Religious hardliners petitioned to overturn the acquittal. The immigration debate has opened a chasm with Republican hardliners who want restrictions. In February 1990, both liberalisers and Marxist-Leninist hardliners intensified their attacks on Gorbachev. He claimed that the protesters would include 2,000 "well-trained hardliners". This further alienated the liberalizers but was not enough to win-over hardliners. He also compared the ban to the rhetoric of hardliners in Iran. Hardliners in Iran have continued to reaffirm the death sentence. Bishop was later executed by military hardliners, prompting a U.S.-led invasion in October 1983. Despite criticism from some environmental hardliners, the Clinton administration had several notable environmental accomplishments. These were topics that the hardliners rejected.