Havel and other organizers of the petition "A Few Sentences" call for a public gathering on Czechoslovak Independence Day (Oct. 28) to show support for a dialogue between the government and citizens' groups. (See also: Havel, Václav, "Testing Ground," in Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990. Selected and Edited by Paul Wilson (New York: Knopf, 1991), 373-5.)